[Distutils] [buildout] windows/jenkins annoyance

[Chris Withers]

On 19/01/2013 22:54, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 19/01/2013 21:16, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Another option would be to pin setuptools in your buildout.cfg to
>> avoid the
>> upgrade.
>
> Just a note to say that this didn't work:
>
> http://jenkins.simplistix.co.uk/job/testfixtures-buildout/PYTHON=2.7,label=windows/167/console

Even worse, doing so causes an infinite loop of restarts on Mac OS X, as 
a result of the setuptools that ships with the OS versions of python:

http://jenkins.simplistix.co.uk/job/testfixtures-buildout/168/PYTHON=2.7,label=mac/console

Chris

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